newbie need advise for my oven

[brickie in oz]

Re: newbie need advise for my oven

I just saw an ad on gumtree for ceramic blankets
Price: $70 per roll 600mm wide x 25mm thick x 3600mm long
BUY 2 FOR $99
My bricks+ blanket= 110mm~ of insulation
So that should be good right?

Users on Gumtree just phish for your email addy so they can spam you, why else do you think the deal was so good?

[gonzo420]

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ummm I didn't give anyone my email addy... just called the number. Probably someone selling a stock shipped from china

How thick do they normally come as?

[cobblerdave]

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Gudday
This is getting to be an awfull amount of effort and good materials going into an oven that's to be pulled apart in a years time and hopefully be able to save the materials . If it was me I would consider two options
One ....buy myself a pizza stone, save the materials and research and dream of next year
Two..... Build an E shaped dry stacked block stand. Bolt together a top from layers of 12 mm compressed concrete and build me a proper ridge didge 25inch oven on that with all the bells and whistles and have 12 months to play. Then ....comes the time, forklift that puppy off and on to a trailer and happily take it to its perminent home.....
Just saying ......
Regards dave

[david s]

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The bricks are 32x12 and 80mm thick, they are the same size as the fire bricks.
If you say 100mm thick then I shouldn't cut them and I'll use them 'as is' on top of the dome. I guess breaking them apart and do the homebrew mix will make the insulation better but wouldn't it be fine just like this?

I placed a firebrick on the stove this morning with the insulating one on top of it for more than an hour. The temp on top of the insulating brick was 30 degrees. on top of the fire brick was 160 and where the insulating brick touches the fire brick it was 77 degrees.


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They will conform to the spherical surface better if you halve them.

[gonzo420]

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forklift that puppy off and on to a trailer and happily take it to its perminent home.....
Just saying ......
Regards dave

If I can use a forklift then I'd build a proper one to begin with.

My design is pretty simple. The heaviest part of my oven will be the dome which will be separate from the cooking floor. It will take a few men to lift up and put on a trailer.

[gonzo420]

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They will conform to the spherical surface better if you halve them.

If they conform is that a good thing or bad? Do you mean it will create more mess to take heat into and by that make the oven not efficient? Sorry if my understanding is poor

I bought the ceramic blankets today. I will cover the dome with the blankets and then maybe cut 'em to half and extra insulate the dome

With the ceramic blankets I think I'm good to go!

Bought the refractory concrete and the rendering mix too! Can't wait to get my hands dirty

[david s]

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If you halve the bricks you should end up with a more spherical form to render over the final coat (presuming you are intending an igloo rather than a dog house). Love to see some photos.

[gonzo420]

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Hi again,
A quick question but I'm re-watching demos of constructing a barrel shape oven, and I noticed all of them place the chimney inside the oven rather than outside like the pompeii shape. Which way should I do it? I was gonna do it outside..

[david s]

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Outside is better IMO. Outside makes it a crossdraft, inside makes it an updraft. Crossdraft produces more even heating and more efficient. Check out Lburou's build for cross draft. If you put it inside the oven you will need a damper on the flue.This configuration does not have an entry to hav to work past, check out Brickie in Oz's build.

[gonzo420]

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Ok I see. And also I don't get the damper part.. if you twist the damper on, won't the smoke just escape thru the front door?

[david s]

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Yes, if the damper is fully closed that is exactly what will happen. But you open it fully to start, then partially close it as the heat builds up, then fully close it for retained heat cooking.

[gonzo420]

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Will it be still be useful on an outside chimney or have no functionality? Just chucking more labor into the project haha

[david s]

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A damper on the flue that is outside the oven is not really of much use because it draws both from the oven and the outside. When the door to the oven is placed either partially closed or fully closed it acts as a damper to the outer flue.

[gonzo420]

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Last night I was lying the bricks on top.. I think my oven is too long what do you think?
It's 122 cm long and 61cm wide


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Do you think the distance to the chimney will be too long? The fire will be in the back..
My oven looks like a coffin..

[Les]

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Last night I was lying the bricks on top.. I think my oven is too long what do you think?

I don't know what to think. What the hell are you building? The good thing is that it is brick and it will probably stand and last forever...